Open AccessNatural products as drugs source in the Ecuador´s essential medicines list
Author(s) -
Pablo Andrés Cisneros Pérez
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
avances en ciencias e ingenierías/avances en ciencias e ingenierías (en línea)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2528-7788
pISSN - 1390-5384
DOI - 10.18272/aci.v13i2.2110
Subject(s) - traditional medicine , natural (archaeology) , natural medicine , chemical constituents , medicine , geography , chemistry , archaeology , chromatography
This paper presents the analysis of the origin of 391 active ingredients (AIs) of the 9th list of essential medicines in Ecuador, using the system proposed by Newman and Cragg with certain modifications. The AIs of natural origin represent 54.2% of the list and have greater importance in the categories H, R and B of the Anatomical, Therapeutic and Chemical classification system for pharmacological substances and medicines. In addition, the influence of natural products was analyzed in the categories with the highest amount of IAs J, L and N, as well as in category C, which is associated with the main cause of death in Ecuador.